DNCE: The Billboard Photo Shoot

“It would be easy to come into this from something like the Jonas Brothers with an ego,” says Joe Jonas, sitting with his new DNCE bandmates hours before the third show of an invite-only four-night run, “but I’ve got my head on straight. I’m ready to get out there and build a fan base.”

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On the Lookout for Fun

“I called them up, like, ‘Quit the other bands and come hang!’ ”says Jonas. Adds Lawless: “No matter the situation, Joe’s always searching for fun. What’s the point of being alive if you can’t have as much fun as possible all the time?”

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'Cake by the Ocean' Inspiration

After a few days of “hanging out and having a few drinks,” says Jonas, everything fell into place with “Cake by the Ocean,” inspired by Swedish producers' Mattman & Robin fumbling the name for the cocktail sex on the beach. “It was the launchpad; we scrapped everything we’d written before that.”

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Jumping to It

“People have been supportive so far,” he says. “I saw a tweet: ‘Thank God -- you’re not just following your girlfriend around!'”